1968 The N.C. Essay Page 6
CONCERT SLATED
FOR THURSDAY
N.C.S.A. CHORUS m ORCHESTRA TO PERFOm
December J7,
Admission free
' sronio WORKSHOP one
OPBfe TONIGHT
The School of Drama's STUDIO
WORKSHOP ONE will have performances
tonight and tomorrow night, December
17 and 18, at 8:15 p.m. Reserva-
i-lons may be made at the Drama Box
Office, 723-2717, between the hours
of 1:00 and 5:00 p-m. Admission is
free.
The plays to be presented are
THE BALD SOPRANO, directed by Ira
Zuckerman, a classic of the Theatre
of the Absurd by Eugene Ionesco; .
Tertence McNalley's hilarious black
comedy, NEXT, directed by Jimmy i
Greenwood; and THE UGLY DUCKLING by j
A. A. Milne, adapted as an adult |
musical fairy tale, directed by |
Robert Murray. j
ITALIAN WORKERS COflTINIE REWLTS;
POLICE KILL 2, 1-OJMI) 15
by Anthony FragoLa
Acting with traditional disre
gard for the life of a worker or
peasant, the Italian police, the
carabiniere, fired upon some 500
striking farm laborers near Syra
cuse, Sicily, killing two, wounding
15 others.
The incident touched off a ser
ies of strikes of such a large scale
that it seemed ihe chaos in Italy
would rival the pandemonium in
France last May, Signs reading
"Down with the Assassins of the
Workers," and headlines in the left
ist Roman newspaper Faese Sera
screaming "Massacre" gave incentive
to an outburst of violent demonstra
tions. Students and workers across
the nation formed a loose coalition
and protested existing conditions in
both the areas of education and la
bor. Students have always been
locked into archconservative curri-
culums; and too often students who
have finaly obtained their degrees,
especially in Southern Italy, find
that there are no positions avail
able and spend their days in spirit
breaking idlenes. (These disallu-
sioned youths are ready for commun
ism.) Professors have dictatorial
control over hiring procedure gov
erning new faculty, and only a priv-
eledged few manage to find their way
into the university teaching system.
Workers sought improvements in
their Job conditions which have not
kept pace with the academic growth
of Italy's rapidly expanding econ
omy. From the prosperous industrial
north to the neglected, impoverished
south, universities were seized,
students and workers demonstrated,
cars were burned, and windows brok
en.
But almost immediately, the
violence ebbed away, Italy's comm
unist party, the largest in Europe,
oflRsed word to its member, who com
prise most of the labor unions, to
The chorus.and orchestra of the
North Carolina School of the Arts
will give a concert at 8:15 p.m.
Thursday, December 19, in the audi
torium of Main Hall at the School of
the Arts.
Norman Johnson, choral conduc
tor and opera director at the School
of the Arts, will conduct the orche
stra and chortis. Johnson is also
artistic director and conductor of
the Denver Lyric Opera at Denver
Colorado.
The program will include the
Mass in d minor by Joseph Haydn and
the Chichester Psalms by Leonard
Bernstein.
The mass, known as the Nelson
Mass, is in memory of England's Lord
Horatio Nelson, Certain portions
are supposed to have been inspired
by Nelson's victory at Aboukir.
Haydn depicts him as victor and lib
erator from French imperialism.
The mass includes Kyrie, Credo,
Sanctus and Agnus Dei. Soloists
will be Georgyn Geetlein, soprano,
of Westfield, N. J.; Ella Cutts,
alto, of Angler; Douglas Decatur,
tenor, of Matthews and John Cheek,
bass, of Wilmington. They are stu
dents of Rose Bampton and Norman
Farrow oi the voice faculty at the
School of the Arts.
Leonard Bernstein was commis
sioned to compose the Chichester
Psalms for the 1965 music festival
in Chichester, England. The psalms
were sung on July 31 at Chichester,
but the world premiere took place on
July 15 in Philharmonic Hall in New
York with Bernstein conducting the
New York Philharmonic with the Came-
rata Singers, Abraham Kaplan, con
ductor.
stay off the streets. The party
leadership seemed afraid that trou
ble during the Christmas season
would cause them to loose popularity
and give rival parties ammunition to
denounce the communist party which
has steadily gained strength since
World War II. Some observers be
lieve that the Communists were
afraid that the military, which is
always a conservative group, might
step in and take control of the
country.
Another reason for the rapid
curbing of violent demonstrations
might be attributed to the simple
fact that the communists have no
easy tr^get, for Italy is still
withot.^ \n effective government, as
it has baen since Aldo Moro quit the
Pi'^.mier's job in June. However, it
i;’. hoped that Premier-uesignate Mar
iano Rumor can line up an effective
program and cabinet for a new center
left coalition. Rumor's Christian
Democrats, the Socialists, and the
Jeff Loree of Raleigh, a stu
dent of Geraldine Cate of the voice
faculty at the School of the Arts,
will sing the boy alto parts in the
psalms.
Psalms include: Psalm 108 (ver
se two, "Awake, Psaltery and harp!"
Psalm 100 (all verses), "Make a joy
ful noise unto the Lord"; Psalm 23
(all verses) "The Lord is my Shep
herd"; Psalm 2 (verses one through
four), "Why do the nations rage";
Psalm 131 (all verses, "lord. Lord,
my heart is not haughty"; Psalm 133
(verse one), "Behold how good and
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity". All psalms will
be sung in Hebrew.
REVISION ANNOUNCED
IN FINANCIAL AID
All students should be receiv
ing applications for financial aid
for the 1969-70 school year in their
mail boxes this week. Any student
who anticipates financial aid either
for artistic merit or need must fill
out these forms. If financial aid
3S not anticipated, students are
asked to return the forms to the
office of financial aid in the
Gi r J s ' Do r mi t o ry.
Students who anticipate finan
cial aid for the local s u m m e r
session or the Siena session must
also complete the forms. The earlier
the forms are returned the earlier
they will be considered by the
financial aid comiittee, so it i?
to the student's advantage to get;^
the forms in early.
Financial aid awards must be
renewed each year whether it is an
artist merit or need award. At the
last day of the 68-69 school year
all existing awards will be termi
nated and no aid will be granted for
69-70 without the completed finan-
cial aid forms.
If the twelfth grade English Liter
ature course continues in the same
manner, the name of the course will
have to be changed to "History of
the British COMMONwealth.
tiny Republican party all scheduled
leadership meetings to ratify or re
ject the accords worked out with
Rumor.
Though the three parties seemed
to have reached an agreement, it
seems obvious that Italy is ripe for
more demonstrations and internal
disorder, and unless reforms are
made, the Italians might show some
of their ancient fervor and create
enough turmoil and energy to rival
the summer heat. But without a dy
namic leader of the De Gaulle vari
ety, this could prove disastrous.